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Printing to Network Printer

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Printing to Network Printer

Printing to Network Printer

(OP)
Hi,
How do I print to a network printer from my VB program? I am using the Open statement to open the network port for Output followed by a Print statement to the file handle for the network printer. However, the print job was not printed. How do I go about doing this? The method does work for my local printer. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

RE: Printing to Network Printer

You don´t need to do that anymore in VB, you can use the printer object and then use the printer.print method to print to the printer you want
I saw an example somewhere in the book

dim x as printer

x = thenetwork printer


set printer = x

RE: Printing to Network Printer

if you code printer.print "Hello" Hello will be sent to DEFAULT printer. If this is not what you want you could use a common dialog box using the showprinter method to allow the user to select a printer. or query the printer collection as mentioned above for a printer that meets your criteria and the use the set printer = x when your routine finds a match

RE: Printing to Network Printer

(OP)
Hi,
Thanks for the replies. Am I right to say that in the reply by hug, "thenetwork printer" refers to the network printer name?
How do I ensure that the printer do not format the text at all. I want to print some files which must not be formatted at all. That is, the output must look like that printer in DOS mode!
Once again, thanks.

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